Visual Embedded Android (AOSP) with Drawings and Practice

Name: Visual Embedded Android (AOSP) with Drawings and Practice
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Explore Android Open Source Project and design powerful systems using Android 11

Created byMustafa Ozcelikors

Last updated 6/2025

English

What you'll learn

Understand embedded system essentials and purpose
Understand high level operating systems (Linux, Android) and purpose of using one
Understand Linux software stack essentials
Understand Android software stack essentials
Customize Android Open Source Project
Work with Android 11 source
Run Android 11 on ASUS Tinkerboard 2
Create custom Android builds for ASUS Tinkerboard 2
Create Android native services
Port native binaries to Android build system
Get around with Android build system (Soong, Makefile)
Use Android Debugging Bridge (ADB) confidently for talking with embedded devices
Use Fastboot confidently for flashing images
Create and work with SELinux policies
Work with AOSP directories confidently
Understand and work with partitions in Android
Port custom Android applications to AOSP
Run Google Compatibility Test Suite (CTS)
Design Android Software compatible with CTS
Get and set system features by manipulating Android system properties
Define and integrate AIDL interfaces
Understand Linux and Android boot process and their differences

Course content

11 sections • 42 lectures • 7h 30m total length

Course Promotional Video1:20
Introduction to Embedded Systems16:18
Definition of embedded system, purpose of using embedded systems, difference between safety critical and non-safety critical applications.
A Generic View on an Embedded System12:15
Why do we customize hardware and software? What are the responsibilities of embedded system developers? Hardware and software components in a basic embedded system.

Android vs Linux11:38
Scheduling, memory management, logging, C library, kernel in Android compared with Linux. Introduction to Low Memory Killer, Binder, Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Linux Architecture Basics11:18
How applications, services, libraries work together and talk with the device drivers in Linux kernel? Linux software stack introduction and examples. System call functions. Interprocess communication.
Android Architecture21:35
Android operating system software stack, Android API, Android Framework, Android System Services, Android Runtime. Example software stack. Case Study: Application requesting system to suspend. SELinux introduction. Examples for each software stack layers in Android.
How Linux and Android Boots?11:02
Linux and Android boot introduced with drawings and examples. Purposes of bootloader, Linux kernel, Linux userspace are explained. Android boot explained (Android Runtime, Zygote, system_server)

Obtaining and Building Android Source4:26
Downloading Android source using repo tool. Configuring build using lunch command. Building Android source. Build variants (userdebug, user, eng) explained.
Downloading Android 11 source for ASUS Tinkerboard 26:02
Downloading Android 11 source for ASUS Tinkerboard 2 using repo tool
Building Android 11 source for ASUS Tinkerboard 210:45
Downloading Android 11 source for ASUS Tinkerboard 2. Information on how to build Linux kernel, Android images, bootloader, and how to generate SD card image to use for ASUS Tinkerboard2.
Update: Building Instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 Users2:15
Flashing Android 11 image to ASUS Tinkerboard 21:52
Flashing image to ASUS Tinkerboard 2 using balenaEtcher tool

Introduction to ASUS Tinkerboard 2 Hardware and Interfacing using Serial4:55
Introduction to ASUS Tinkerboard 2 Hardware. Interfacing using Serial Interface using minicom tool. Getting access to terminal.
Introduction to ADB and Fastboot5:23
Getting access to the Android device using Android Debugging Bridge (ADB) over USB connection. Flashing seperate images and getting information using fastboot command.
Flashing seperate partitions using Fastboot tool9:22
Enabling fastboot mode in the device. Using fastboot tool to flash images to the system.
ADB Remote Screen4:04
Accessing and visualizing graphical desktop interface using AdbRemoteScreen tool.

Board, build, and device configuration files12:50
Exploring ASUS Tinkerboard 2 source and finding board, build, and device configuration files
Init Scripts (RC files)5:06
Exploring ASUS Tinkerboard 2 source and finding init scripts (RC files)
Devicetree and Kernel Config Files7:30
Exploring ASUS Tinkerboard 2 source and finding devicetree and kernel config files
Files for Android Framework Customization6:01
Exploring ASUS Tinkerboard 2 source and finding Android Framework customization files

Introduction to Native Service Creation in Android14:58
What is required for native service creation in Android? What will we be doing in the next few lectures? How does the files and directories we will modify look like?
Creating Native AIDL Service using C++9:29
Creating Init Script for Our Example Service5:17
Modifying Manifest Files for adding AIDL Interface7:17
Creating Aidl Interface Library using Android Build System11:22
SELinux Configuration for Example Service17:09
Creating Test Application to Talk with Example Service over AIDL Interface29:04

An Example Approach to Fixing System-wide Issues10:12
In this lecture, we will have a look at what's wrong in our logcat logs and we will try to fix logcat problems.
Testing and Certification in Android23:22
Google tests, CDD requirements, Compatibility Test Suite (CTS), Vendor Test Suite (VTS), Security Test Suite (STS), Compatibility Test Suide Verifier (CTS Verifier). How to make sure that our device is officially Android-compatible?Running CTS tests, debugging issues in CTS tests.
ADB Commands for System-wide Debugging15:37
Explained commands for listing packages, users, features, broadcasts. How to pull or push data from/to device? How do debug crashed applications? How to filter logcat output?

Requirements

Basic Linux understanding (commands, bash scripts, code compilation, basic concepts)
Basic embedded system understanding (basic concepts, cross compilation, system images)
Basic C and C++ programming understanding (not a must but good to have)

Description

Hi,
My name is Mustafa Ozcelikors, a Linux & Android Engineer with more than +7 years of experience working in automotive, who have won Google SOC event in 2017. Here comes a unique beginner to intermediate course that is dedicated to teach Android Open Source Project and Embedded Android concepts to a larger audience.

Visual Embedded Android Training is a unique course in the way that I use slideshows, pen and canvas for theoretical subjects, whereas makes hands-on examples for the practical subjects. I have mastered this technique over the years, teaching my colleagues at work, teaching on Youtube, and now I have decided to move on to Udemy to reach larger audience.

Theoretical subjects are carefully planned and almost for every important subject, multiple block diagrams have been created for better understanding. Almost every figure, schematic, drawing comes from years of experience in the field, not from the internet or from any book. In practical subjects we take a deep dive in exploring AOSP directories and open up a terminal to achieve things within it.

At the end of the course we together will have a custom Android with custom launcher and custom theme, with integrated AIDL service and test application.

You are in this now for the following great content:

Understand embedded Android and Linux software stacks
Get around with Android 11 source code and Soong (Android.bp) build system
Use ASUS Tinkerboard 2 and run Android 11 on it , completely from the source.
Create AIDL interfaces, native C++ Android services, create test applications
Port existing Android Java applications to Soong (Android.bp build system
Understand AOSP folder layout, partitions
Understand and work with SELinux policies
Flash images confidently using fastboot tool
Talk to embedded device confidently using adb tool
Run CTS tests
Log and dump Android system information

Thank you!!

Kindly yours,
Mustafa

Who this course is for:

Beginners and enthusiasts who understand Linux and want to learn AOSP and Embedded Android
Hobbyists who want to work with ASUS Tinkerboard 2 and AOSP
Beginners who would like to develop their car infotainment, or mobile devices based on Android
Professionals who want a great wrap-up on their favourite subject

Visual Embedded Android (AOSP) with Drawings and Practice

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Course content

Introduction to Embedded Systems3 lectures • 30min

Embedded Android Architecture4 lectures • 56min

Building Android Source and Flashing Android Image5 lectures • 25min

A Tour Through Android Source and Partitions2 lectures • 29min

Accessing Android Device4 lectures • 24min

Exploring ASUS Tinkerboard 2 directories and sources4 lectures • 31min

Customizing Android Framework5 lectures • 49min

Working in Android Build System4 lectures • 38min

Understanding and Creating Native C++ Service7 lectures • 1hr 35min

Going Forward3 lectures • 49min

Requirements

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